FILE | Protest against gender-based violence in Cape Town. Nyanga residents and community activists in Cape Town will march to Parliament on Friday to demand justice for 25-year-old Zenande Tshazibane. She was raped and murdered in her Nyanga home in June, just days after seeking legal protection from her partner. Authorities have yet to make…
SABC TV Park building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. Parliament has called on Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi to expedite the finalisation and passing of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Bill. The Bill has been stalled for months due to the Minister’s previous indication of withdrawing it. Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Communications and…
Farmland. The Economic Freedom Fighters in the Free State has lambasted the police for failing to arrest what the EFF says are known suspects in the murder of a man who was buried on a farm next to Kroonstad on the way to Welkom in the Free State in July. EFF Provincial Secretary, Bosanku Msimanga,…
Chris Froome, Four-Times Tour de France winner Four-times Tour de France winner Chris Froome was airlifted to hospital in Toulon after suffering a training crash which left him with broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a back fracture, his team Israel-Premier Tech said on Thursday. The Briton’s team said the 40-year-old suffered the crash on…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attends the opening meeting of the BRICS summit at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday launched a G20 experts taskforce to examine global wealth inequality and its impact on growth, poverty and multilateralism – the first initiative of…
[FILE IMAGE]: An empty prison cell. The High Court in Polokwane, Limpopo, has handed two life sentences to a former farm worker convicted of killing two friends at Echo Caves, Ohrigstad. Christopher Mgiba killed Anneke and Hennie Claasen and burnt down their houses with the bodies inside in June 2023. Mgiba had been expelled from…
National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola briefs the media. National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola says 121 police dockets will be returned to the Political Killings Task Team after they were removed from the unit. KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi had claimed Police Minister Senzo Mchunu had instructed senior SAPS officials to disband the task team in…
KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has ordered that all police officers involved in driving a colleague’s child to a matric dance in Estcourt in a police vehicle be removed from duty pending a disciplinary investigation. A video of the child being transported went viral on social media. The officers in…
A taxi rank in Springs. The Department of Transport in Gauteng says it will not be bullied as it continues to work on restoring law and order on the province’s public roads by maintaining that citizens have the right to choose whichever mode of public transport that they want to use. The department has impounded…
[File image]: Closed business. Data released by Statistics South Africa shows that business liquidations last month increased by a substantial 16.5% compared to the same period last year. This comes amid a tough operating environment in South Africa. Liquidations of close corporations increased by 26 cases while liquidations of companies decreased by four cases during…
